Friday, May 23, 2014

The rich fantasy life of BDS losers

From the Mike Report, a great new cartoon highlighting the rich fantasy life of the BDS cru

Mike writes:

2014 has
unquestionably been the year of the BDS fail. Out of fifteen campus
Divest from Israel resolutions in 2014, only three were passed and
validated. But of all the BDS losses under their belt, the most decisive
smack down came from the students of the University of Washington this
past week.

Let us understand the magnitude of SUPER-UW‘s humiliating loss. From the first day of the Fall quarter, SUPER-UW
and their allies, Jewish Voice for Peace in particular, saturated the
UW campus with BDS trainings and anti-Israel info sessions. First tier
Israel haters, like Ali Abunimah, Max Blumenthal and the Corries as well
as fifth tier radicals like Wael Elasady, Jesse Hagopian, and Maya
Rotem were trotted out to tell their tales of Olive tree bulldozing,
baby killing, wild-eyed Jewish settlers.

But after
nine months of lectures, lobbying and leaflets the resolution went down
in flames. The final tally; 59 to 8 with 11 abstentions. What this means
is that Brannan, Mattar and all of the minions at their command managed
to persuade a pathetic six senators to join them out of 78 in
attendance that night!

As of today, however, there were 16 campuses weighing in on divestment. Today was the final day of a divestment vote at DePaul University, where the entire student body was given the opportunity to vote on the bill. Of the 25,000 plus students at DePaul, the resolution was only able to garner 1,575 votes. After months of "actions", apartheid walls, sit-ins, op-eds, spamming social media, less the ten percent of the students were sufficiently engaged by this issue to even vote, and of those, the resolution passed by only a narrow margin- with 1,333 opposed.

Expect the usual self-congratulatory press releases on their "dramatic victory".